Project Manager- Climate Resiliency

QM Environmental is one of Canada’s largest full-service national decommissioning and environmental services firms. Always committed to health, safety and environment;

QM has been experiencing consistent growth in the last years and we would like to invite you to be part of this team.

We are looking for a Project Manager Climate Resiliency to join our team in Delta, BC.

POSITION SUMMARY

Project Managers are responsible for executing projects that meet or exceed company financial targets, on time and within budget.

Project Managers are also responsible for :

• Managing client relationships, ensuring projects meet or exceed key performance indicators, and business development in both identifying potential works and estimating and working through the bid process.
• Overseeing on-site project resources, both human and capital, and ensuring that projects meet or exceed QM’s Health and Safety Policies and Programs.

As the Climate Resiliency Project Manager you will have specific responsibility for managing construction projects involving :

• Flood protection landforms
• Creek and river re-alignment
• Water management including treatment and bypass
• Sediment removal
• Erosion control features
• Habitat features
• Aquatic and riparian habitat construction
• Shoreline and bank stabilization
• Supporting civil infrastructure
• Engineered slope stabilization system
• Invasive species removal
• Topsoil & seeding
• Various types of terrestrial and aquatic planting

What you will do in this role :

• Managing client relationships, ensuring project meets or exceeds key performance indicators.
• Overseeing on-site project resources, both human and capital.
• Planning, scheduling and preparing for upcoming works.
• Identifying changes to site conditions.
• Change order management.
• Project official communications / documentation.
• Ensuring / optimizing job profitability and financial performance.
• Ensuring that field data, including approving time / hours for employees, is collected and maintained using the most recent version of the field pack.
• Providing information for creation of accurate purchase orders and managing purchase order process.
• Working with stakeholders to identify suitable business opportunities and prospects.
• Cultivating and managing business relationships, both new and existing.

What you bring :

• Minimum of at least five (5) years of related experience in managing and implementing work involving completion of ecological finishes including stone, bioengineering, landscaping, plantings, etc.
• Graduate from a university program related to earth sciences or engineering (preferred).
• Certified Engineering Technologist or Professional Engineer would be an asset.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in landscaping / planting / stone placement / water management / civil scopes of work.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in project management.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in resource allocation and management responsibilities and with the administration of prime contracts, subcontracts, and contract changes.

Essential Competencies

• Effective leadership skills, with the ability to lead site teams and subcontractors.
• Ability to analyze and evaluate complex sites problems and to plan and lead multi-disciplinary teams of technical and field operations personnel and external consultants to execute solutions.
• To understand contracts; communicate project risks effectively with clients and stakeholders and to negotiate contract changes.

COMPANY POLICIES

Compliance with company policies is a requirement of employment. Please note that this includes QM’s Covid-19 in the Workplace Vaccination Policy, which requires employees to comply with QM’s Infection Control Plan (ICP).

QM’s ICP requires employees to be vaccinated if they will be working onsite at a jobsite that has a mandatory vaccination policy.

Accommodations, including legally eligible exemptions, will be considered where legally required.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

As proponents of Canada’s Black North Initiative, QM continues to support a culture of integrity, fairness and ethical practices.

QM Environmental is a staunch advocate for diversity in all its forms, and especially welcomes applications from members of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) community, women, people with disabilities, the LGBTQ+ community, and those of diverse intersectional identities.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process as well as part of employment with QM Environmental.

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